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The Pianist a film by Roman Polanski To hear of the atrocities that befell the Jews during the holocaust emotes feelings of anger and heartfelt sorrow in the common man, but to actually experience such acts of cruelty first hand words can never describe how that must feel. Roman Polanski tries to explain how the Jews of that time must have felt through his recent work entitled The Pianist. Being a survivor of the holocaust himself Polanski must have felt it was time to tell the story of his people, who suffered at the hands of the Nazi regime. Though Polanski could have easily told his own story he chose the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (played by Adrien Brody) a polish pianist whose story is not one of great heroics or bravery but rather of pure survival through the kindness of strangers and pure luck. Wladyslaw Szpilman died in the year 2000 at the ripe old age of 88 but he left behind his memoirs for the world to read. Polanski describes Wladyslaws writings as being a camera that recorded all the on goings in vivid pictures in his mind and painted them as though onto canvas with his words, while remaining objective at all times. The film struck me as different from the opening credits or rather the lack thereof as Polanski o